Corset and like stiffener.



F. KLEEMANN.

CORSET AND LIKE STIFFENER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR,12. 1911.

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FELIX KLEEMANN, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

CORSET AND LIKE STIFFENER.

Application filed March 12, 1917.

1 0 all whom it may concern lie it known that l, FELIX KLEEMANN, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at 23 Moor Lane, London, E. 0., England, have invented new and useful 11nprovemcnts in and Connected with Corsets and like Stitl'eners, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to stifi'encrs especially for use in ladies dress. The in vention has, more especially, reference to the provision of tips or caps upon the end of stiileuers consisting of flattened wire spring As is known to those versed in the art stitl'encrs of this nature are often made by winding wire upon a mandrel and flattening the resulting springs by means of flatting rolls or like devices. Then the flattened springs are cut up into lengths to fill the stiffened pockets of the garment on which it is to be used. It is obvious that the operation of cutting leaves sharp and jagged ends exposed. Usually these ends are capped by a small tip of sheet metal but it has been recognized that this form of cap has the disadvantages, first, of expense owing to the time required for the capping operation, and secondly, owing to the fact that the hard cap is liable to wear out the garmentat the ends of the stiffener.

The main purpose of the present invention is to provide an extremely simple method of capping stifieners of the class mentioned in order to overcome these diiiiculties. The main object of the present in vention, therefore, comprises a tip of plastic material such as gelatin, inijlia-rubber, celluloid and so forth, and sometimes the tip may be given a finish by covering the plastic material with some fabric such as paper or strips of cloth or paper, in order to prevent the plastic material from breaking away from the wires at the end of the stifl' ener.

Thus, in applying the tip the plastic 1naterial is pressed into the interstices of the wire coil for some short distance at the end only, and is then hardened or dried. In the annexed drawings some embodiments Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. so, 1918.

Serial No. 154,258.

of the invention are shown applied to known types of stiffener-s.

In Figure 1 the type of stiffener comprising a coil formed of a single wire wound in circular ccnvolutions is shown. Fig. 2 is an exnnple of a inultiwire stiffener with circ convolutions. In Fig. 3 a number of wires wound regularly in the shape of helices on a mandrel are pressed flat. Fig. illiiistrates a more complex form or" wire stillener and Fig. 5 shows one form diagranuuatically in side view. In all of these cases, the stiffener 1 has at its end portion the cap 2 affixed. In all cases a plastic material of the kind referred to above is well pressed into the interstices of the stiffener until a complete cap or somewhat the shape shown in the drawings is obtained. The cap can then be hardened or dried and used in this state, but preferably it is covered with paper or cloth strip 3 (Fig. 5), say, for cheapness, in order to make a more smooth finish to the article and to preventthe cap coming away in flakes.

The invention can also be carried out by taking fabric on to which a plastic substance has been fixed and cutting it into short strips. A strip is pressed around the end of the stiffener in such a way that the plastic layer is pressed into the interstices of the convolutions of the wire while still in the plastic state, that is, before being hardened. By this method a cap or tip is produced similar in zuJpe-arance to that described above.

lVhat I claim is 1. A method of capping corset and like wire stiffencrs consisting in pressing a noninetallic plastic substance into the interstices only at the end, fashioning said plas tic s bstance into desired shape and hardening said plastic substance.

:2. )1 method of capping corset and like wire stiffeners consisting in pressing a plastic substances into the interstices only at the end, ishioning said plastic substance into desired shape and covering said plastic substance with fabric.

:5. A dress stiil'enel' con'lprising a flattened In Qstnnnn c n'herenl" I sign my n-Lnne to l Wire coil n 11:11 a cup at the 0nd only of his specification in the presence of two snbplus ic substance pressed into the lnl'erstlcea of said coll.

5 l. A dress stiffener comprising a llatlened wire coil, a cup of plastic substance Dressed into the inti 'stices of the coil at the end 5%: 1- H'LJYLER, enly and u pxece 0f fabric C(WQl'lllg and cap' .ll nxxnn C. WOIER.

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